Window-roller shield and curtain-pole support.



L No. 828,457. L PATENTED AUG. 14, 1906.

W. G. CAMPBELL. WINDOW ROLLER SHIEIJDAND CURTAIN POLE SUPPORT.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 28,1904.

HILL ILL UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER G. CAMPBELL, OF MGCRACKEN, PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 14, 1906.

Application filed June 28, 1904- Serial No. 214,523.

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WALTER G. CAMPBELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at McCracken, in the county of Greene and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Window-Roller Shields and Curtain-Pole Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to window-roller shields and curtain-pole supports; and its object is to provide a novel and highly-useful device of this character which is simple of construction and which may be manufactured and sold at a comparatively low cost.

.With the above and other objects in view the invention consists of the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, where- 1n Figure 1 is a front view in elevation of a window-frame, illustrating the application of my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the complete device. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the end caps adapted to close the cylindrical portions of the shield. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary sectional view on the line 5 5 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings byreference characters, A designates the roller receptacle, which is made of adjustablytelescoping parts, so as to adapt it to be applied to windows of different widths. The roller-receptacle is made of single pieces of suitable sheet metal bent into cylindrical shape with tangential extensions projecting vertically downward, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, spaces being left between the free edges of the cylindrical parts and the inner faces of the vertically-depending or tangential extensions, as seen in Fig. 4. The depending parts are made somewhat shorter than the cylindrical shields, as indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawings, so as to permit the end caps to be placed on the latter with convenience.

On the respective ends of the cylinder A are fitted metal caps 2 3, in the former of which is secured a bearing-piece 4, having a round bearing-hole 5. This cap 2 is also provided with a bayonet-slot 6, which locks on a pin 7, fixed in the cylinder, and in the flange of the cap is made a recess 8, into which the edge of one of the depending portions 1 extends when the cap is placed in position. The metal of the flange instead of being cut entirely out is bent back and down, as at 8*, Fig. 3 of the drawings, so that the edge will be smooth and not abrade the edge of the curtain when lowered or raised. The cap-3 is of similar construction to that of the cap 2, except that it is provided with a bearingpiece having an angular socket 9, in which is held the non-revoluble end of the springholding rod of the shade-spring in a wellknown manner. This adapts the device for taking any of the usual spring-acting rollers in common use for hanging shades by. To

the cylinder .A adjacent to each end are mounted and rigidly secured the curtainpole supports 10, having vertical stems terminating in hooks 11, in which a curtain-pole 12 may be supported and held, as indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

In use the shade-stick, with the shade 13, is slipped into the cylinder of the shield with the lower portion of the shade extending through the spaces between the edges of two parts of the cylinder and the inner faces of the depending parts 1. Then the shade-stick is set in the bearings in the caps, and the device is ready to be placed in position, which may be done by fastening the part 1 to the surface of the window-frame by means of screws let through openings 13 and 14 in the parts 1 The curtain-pole 12 may then be laid in the hooks and the curtains then be hung thereto in the usual manner, as indicated in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The two parts of the roller-receptacle A are held in rela-- tive adjusted position by means of the screws let through the openings 14.

It will be perceived that the device is very easily attached to windows, since there is no blocking up of brackets and no measuring of the distance they must be apart to receive the curtain-stick, three screws or tacks being all that are required to securely support the device for all the purposes required of it. The shade cannot be accidentally detached, as sometimes happens in the ordinary style of curtain-hangers.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,-is

In a window-roller shield and a curtainpole supporter, cylindrical shields formed with tangential skirts and adjustably connected together, said skirts being shorter than the cylinders to provide the latter with capreceiving ends, and adapted to have means let therethrough to secure the cylinders in ap plied position and to retain them in their relative adjusted position, caps mounted upon the ends of said shields, each cap having a 1 portion of its flange bent back and down to 5 provide a recess for the reception of the outer edges of said skirts, and bearing-pieces secured to said caps.

WALTER G. CAMPBELL.

Witnesses:

T. F. TRIMER, H. L. CHAPMAN. 

